[TheForge] Unbelievable...

[Saint Phlip]

Rob, it has nothing to do with smithing, but plenty to do with the
irrational overcoming the rational.

It is to be hoped that people like us who work with dangerous
materials use our heads for more than hat racks, and function as
rational people do.

Or, would you like to see someone come in here and say, "And I always
store my gasoline right next to the forge, because Jesus showed
himself to me in a mud puddle and said that I should"?

I have nothing against Catholics, or the adherents of any religion.
However, I have plenty against superstition and illogic, and against
the people who profit by spreading them. I suspect that was Bruce's
point.

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Rob Fertner <rfertner at cox.net> wrote:
> What does this have to do with blacksmithing? As a off-topic submission it
> is tainted by your nasty condescending attitude towards Catholics.
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bruce .
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 7:00 AM
> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
> Subject: [TheForge] Unbelievable...
>
> Okay, so water from a toilet is leaking under a statue of Jesus.  The
> Catholics, being too dumb or too cheap to consider the possibility of
> leaking plumbing, cover their embarrassment by declaring it to be holy
> water.  (Well, I guess that if you can bless the water in a font, you can
> bless the water in a a toilet.)  Believers then treat this sewage as holy
> water, presumably applying it to themselves and their children, or perhaps
> even drinking it.  RC's should be up on charges, yes?  No, the guy who
> traced the leak is up on charges:
>
> http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2012/07/a_sta
> tue_of_jesus_oozing_holy_water_an_indian_skeptic_debunks_miracle.html
>
> Maybe we should come up with a line of statues -- Jesus, Mary, etc. -- who
> "magically" drool and drip snot out of their noses.  Possibly we could make
> them incontinent as well. My hesitation is only that it might belittle
> people who, though no fault of their own, drool or drip snot (i.e., mentally
> deficient or highly allergic), or the incontinent...
>
> --
> Bruce
> NJ
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Saint Phlip

So, you think your data is safe?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html?hpt=T2

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.

.I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary
notices I have read with pleasure. -Clarence Darrow